Engineering case study

Digitizing customs documents and freight-tracking workflows

A client portal for a logistics company gave customers a faster way to submit customs documents and follow freight through the shipment lifecycle.

LogisticsCustoms portal

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The challenge

The public-facing workflow had to stay simple while the backend exchanged files with a government customs system and connected reporting, email, document storage, and shipment data.

Engineering approach

Built the portal with Django, Django REST Framework, Bootstrap, and HTMX.
Handled government customs integration through XML file transfers.
Integrated Office 365 APIs for email and reporting workflows.
Used a recorded supporting stack that included SFTP, AWS S3, Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL, Caddy, and Sentry.

What the product enabled

Digital customs-document submission
Freight tracking across the shipment lifecycle
Government-system XML file exchange
Office 365 email and reporting integration

Delivered outcomes

Connected customer-facing document workflows with the government customs exchange.
Brought document submission and freight visibility into a single portal.
Combined document, shipment, email, and reporting workflows in the portal.

These outcomes summarize the available project record; no client metrics have been inferred.

Technology used

Django
DRF
Bootstrap
HTMX
Digital Ocean
AWS S3
Office 365 API
SFTP
XML
Celery
Caddy
Redis
PostgreSQL
Sentry
Ruff

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